Julio Toro San Martin in The Lost City of the Neanderthals wrote:interlocutor

Now here's an euphemism if ever I've seen one.

Julio Toro San Martin in The Lost City of the Neanderthals wrote:I had promised them, on pain of death, to one day return..

'On pain of death' sounds impressive. Let's take a look at it.As long as he who has made that promise lives, there might always be a day to come to fulfill that promise. Only if by the time he dies he has not done so will he be forsworn....